Thought
Title
Thought
Description
Two verse poem about thoughts.
Date
1944-03-20
Temporal Coverage
Language
Format
One page typewritten document
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Contributor
Identifier
SYeomanHT104405v10023
Transcription
[underlined]THOUGHT [/underlined]
We strive for those high thoughts we cannot find :
Are cruelly bound by the inadequacy,
Not of the thought, but of the power to express.
We have eyes, and yet we cannot see –
The blessing of a procreative mind
Inherited from birth, and yet in gloom we grope.
Our thoughts are as lakes in a wilderness
Made parched and arid by our weakness’ sun;
Or as a man, who with great things undone,
And being old and tired, and nearly blind,
Beats angrily upon the bare walls of his room.
28 Mar 44
Tuddenham
We strive for those high thoughts we cannot find :
Are cruelly bound by the inadequacy,
Not of the thought, but of the power to express.
We have eyes, and yet we cannot see –
The blessing of a procreative mind
Inherited from birth, and yet in gloom we grope.
Our thoughts are as lakes in a wilderness
Made parched and arid by our weakness’ sun;
Or as a man, who with great things undone,
And being old and tired, and nearly blind,
Beats angrily upon the bare walls of his room.
28 Mar 44
Tuddenham
Collection
Citation
“Thought,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed December 5, 2024, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/collections/document/30986.
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